For a little under 40K Rich you could pick up a NA Evora Sports Racer and an S like the one below for a little bit more...
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/classifieds/classic-cars/lotus/evora/lotus-evora-v6-s-sports-racer-4-ips---------2015/9171798
I've never driven an R8 or Aston come to that but have read that the R8 can seem a little bit....well...dull in the handling department. The Aston would get my vote, if only for being British but I'd be terrified by the likely running costs, that's why I ended up with my Evora

After almost 2 years now I’ve decided that my Evora life was a little too monochrome (when compared to my previous technicolour red, white and gold Type 49) so I decided it was time to inject a little colour.
With its red interior and red brake calipers my car isn’t completely devoid of colour but a little more wouldn’t hurt would it? So with that in mind I decided it was the engine bay that required my attention, specifically the engine cover.
As standard the cover is silver and black…
There is an argument to say just dispense with it altogether and save some weight but I’m not that weight conscious and without a supercharger the Toyota NA engine is not a thing of beauty by any stretch of the imagination…
So the first job was to remove the badges, they are only held down with double-sided tape so a scalpel was all that was required…
I decided to paint it Lotus Calypso red (the colour of my old 49) which was always a nice bright red and a reasonable match to the brake calipers too…
After removing the tape residue and a light sand to key the surface I masked it off and sprayed a primer coat…
Followed by the red…
A bit of lacquer and once dried I was able to remove the masking and reapply the badges…
And then refit it over the engine…
I am still in 2 minds whether to change the LOTUS badge from chrome to black – this would match the black badging on the rear of the car but equally the chrome lettering matches that of the brake calipers so arguments either way, for the moment I’ll leave them chrome.

These are how my brackets looked when they came off Tim, you can see that the fixing at one end was completely missing...
...and yes the 4 year service is the dear one anyway without any little extras like this. Maybe yours have been replaced already